A Real Friendship Will Make You Smile – Big!

Can’t believe a real friendship will make you smile BIG? Watch this National Geographic video and you’ll find yourself grinning from ear to ear!

An orangutan and a hound dog find each other and a friendship with great happiness follows.

Wouldn’t it be great to find a real friendship like this one?

What is Urinary Stress Incontinence?

Millions of women suffer from urinary incontinence or UI. A common type is stress incontinence.

If coughing, laughing, sneezing or other movements put pressure on your bladder and cause urine leakage, you may be suffering from stress incontinence.

Pregnancy and childbirth are two of the factors that can injure the bladder supports in women. The supports include the pelvic floor muscles, the vagina, and ligaments. Once these supports are weakened, your bladder can move downward, pushing slightly out of the bottom of the pelvis toward the vagina. This stops the muscles that usually force the urethra shut from squeezing as tightly as they should. Therefore, urine can leak into the urethra during moments of physical stress.

The incidence of stress incontinence increases following menopause.

UI is a medical problem and your doctor can do an evaluation to determine which type of incontinence you may have.

There are many different treatments available for urinary stress incontinence including Kegel exercise, medicines, and injections.

Don’t lose out on enjoying your life for fear of embarrassment. Get the help you need to control urinary stress incontinence.

Indoor Sun Tanning May Be Sign of Addictive Behavior

Indoor sun tanning may be a sign of addictive behavior according to a new report released Monday.

Researchers say as many as one in three young people who use tanning beds could be addicted to them.

229 college students were screened by using two standard questionnaires designed to assess addiction and modified to assess tanning behavior. 39%  met one measure’s criteria for addiction and 30% met the other measure’s criteria.

Catherine E. Mosher, a post-doctoral research fellow in psychiatry and behavioral science at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the study’s lead author said the tanners were aware of the increased risk of several types of skin cancer for both indoors and outdoor tanning.

“They know it’s bad for them,” Mosher said. “This is not about appearance. It’s for relaxation, to improve mood or to socialize.”

Of those scoring positive for addiction, 78% said they had tried to cut down on the time spent tanning but couldn’t, and 78% said they felt guilty about using tanning beds or booths too much.

The study is published in the Archives of Dermatology.

The findings that indoor sun tanning may be a sign of addictive behavior suggests that tanning, either natural or indoors, activates the same parts of the brain triggered by drug dependence.

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